Welcome to your 2012 NL West Round Table Preview with Rockies beat writer Steven Folsom and Diamondbacks writer Matthew Hesse. 2011 brought many surprises in baseball and one of those was the NL West. The Giants didn’t repeat and the Diamondbacks stormed back from a last place finish in 2010 to winning the division in 2011. What will 2012 bring? Well, let's get started.
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He’s the latest crest in a new wave of run-first college quarterbacks, following in the fleet footsteps of campus legends Vince Young (Texas) and Tim Tebow (Florida).
Like the affable Tim, Auburn’s Cam Newton is perfectly packaged for sport celebrity.
Sizable and speedy, the elusive Camster kept his pearly-whites in perfect form by often avoiding the punishing tackles of many a hapless coll...

The Montreal Alouettes announced on Wednesday that they have signed their GM to a contract extension until the end of the 2014 season. The story that initially broke out on July 22nd by TSN and relayed on this site ( http://prosportsblogging.com/cfl-football/montreal-alouettes/live-blog-tigercats-vs-alouettes-730pm-et/ ) is great news for Alouettes fans across the country.
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It took 10 years. Howie Roseman graduated from Fordham Law School and wrote letters to NFL franchises, insisting that he belonged in the NFL. Joe Banner, President of the Philadelphia Eagles, decided to bring Roseman in to assist with salary cap issues. There was no salary for Roseman (he was an unpaid intern), nowhere to put him (they didn't even offer him a desk) but at the age of 24, Howie...

Rod Thorn is out and Billy King is in, as the new Nets general manager. Mikhail Prokhorov made the announcement Wednesday, July 14th, through a press release. Mark this day down in Nets history! The day the Nets turned around their franchise when they took the LeBron James of GM's in Billy King. In all seriousness, what is Prokhorov thinking? He narrowed down the field between Danny Ferry and B...